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The Weekenders is a Disney-made animated series about the weekend life of four pre-adolescents: Tino Tonitini (Jason Marsden), who for the most part tells the shows' stories from his point of view (and almost always closes them with the show's catchphrase, "Later days"); Lor McQuarrie (Grey DeLisle), an athletic girl with (in somewhat cliched fashion) some trouble education-wise, Scottish descent, and fourteen brothers; Carver Descartes (Phil LaMarr), a footwear- and popularity-obsessed Afro-American; and Petrotishkovna "Tish" Katsufrakis (Kath Soucie), the intelligient kid of the bunch and a second-generation Eastern European immigrant.
The series, created by Doug Langdale, made its debut in 2000 and is currently out of production (though there are a handful of episodes that have never been screened in the US). The show's title music was written and sung by Wayne Brady.
The series has its share of quirks: Tino often breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the viewer about what's going on a la the Greek chorus; the credits at the beginning of each story do not mention its title (unusual for a daytime cartoon like this one, but par for the course in primetime cartoons like, using Disney examples, The Proud Family and Kim Possible); despite having four school-age children in the main roles, the show hardly (if ever) touches on aspects of school life (as Recess does), as stories nearly always begin on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday evening; a recurring running gag in the series is that the pizza place the characters hang out in would have a different theme in every story, and another involves Tino's single mother serving foods of highly questionable origin.
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